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(No Model.) L. W. TRUESDELL.

COMBINED VALVE AND VALVE SEAT. No. 249,557. Patented 1\0v.15,1881.l

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS YV. TRUESDEIJL, OF OWEGO, NEW YORK.

COMBINED VALVE AND VALVE-SEAT.

i SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 249,557, dated November 15, 1881.

Application filed August 9, 1881.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, LEWIS W.TuUEsDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Owego, in the county of Tioga und State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Combined Valve and Valve-Seat; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact desciiptionof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, male seat formed in one piece by molding it in suitable molds, 'as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described.

In the accom punyin g drawin gs, A represents the valve, and B the valve-seat, preferably of circular form, the diameter of the valve being greater than that of the opening in the seat, so that when closed the valve will bear down or come in contact with the seat around its in- V11er edge.

(No model.)

In order to have the valve of the required weight to be self-closing, a metal disk may be connected thereto by suitable bolts or rivets.

The sent B is formed with a small opening, a, to allow the escape of the water back into the well during the winter or in cold weather but in summer it may be stopped up by a suitable plug.

This valve and valveseut are composed of rubber formed in suitable molds, and are of the saine piece, there being no fa tenings used to connect the two together.

IIaving now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As un improved article of manufacture, a combined valve and valve-seat formed of one and a single piece of rubber, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. y

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS W. TRUESDELL.

Witnesses C. A. CLARK, G. W. BARNES. 

